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Figure Load Times & Size of Runtime / data folder

Rod Wise DriggoRod Wise Driggo Posts: 2,229
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Load times of my figures are getting worse and worse, loading a G3F scene or a new figure tends to take ages, but at least several minutes. As I do have lots of content I wonder whether figure load times are connected to the size and structure of the runtime, especially the data folder.

From my understanding if I load a G3F or G8F-based figure, the data folder is completely read/loaded to populate the parameters tab with all the available morphs, right? First of all I do have two runtimes. One with DIM content, and the second with content from other stores like Rendo and various free resources. The data folder alone in my default runtime is > 50 GB, the G3F subfolder > 8 GB. Second runtime data folder is also big but with G3F < 1 GB. Both runtimes are on the same external HDD.

Now to speed up things I think about:

- Merging the runtimes. That way the read process would cover only one folder so it might be faster?
- Uninstalling all figures/morphs I don't use often. Now that might be clumsy and time consuming.

Does anybody have had a similar situation and other ideas on how to improve things?

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,770

    I'm not sure that merging will help that much - maybe a bit, if DS checks files on disc rather than properties already loaded, when handling links.

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    @Rod Wise Driggo

    Have you actually timed this? Sometimes, especially with a computer, an operation seems to take a lot longer than it actually does.

    My PC is an i-4770K (3.5 GHz), 32 GB RAM. My Studio library is on an external USB drive. My data folde is 310GB. Note that DAZ original figures (i.e. V7, Eva &, Olympia 7, etc) always take longer than a PA figure.

    Here are some times (empty scene):

    Eva 7 : 52 sec

    FWSA Ella 22 sec 

  • Rod Wise DriggoRod Wise Driggo Posts: 2,229

    I'll time this. But I wonder why there should be a huge gap between a DAZ figure and an PA one. Doesn't each figure load all morphs available for that generation and gender. I mean once I have the figure in the scene, all morphs are available in the parameters pane. And therefore I would say that studio needs to scan all relevant data folders. I guess the 310 GB might not be the data folder but the full runtime, right?

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    @Rod Wise Driggo "I guess the 310 GB might not be the data folder but the full runtime, right?"

    No, 310 GB is the Data folder. The full runtime is 1.07 TB.

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